AUTHOR OF "MOODS;" "Work, a Story of ExperIENCE;" BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1914 ! : “The Indescribable, Here it is done : The Woman-Soul leadeth us Upward and on!" Second Part of FAUST. Union Lib 6-26-25 12081 A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES. WITHOUT, I. ITHOUT, a midwinter twilight, where wandering snowflakes eddied in the bit. ter wind between a leaden sky and frost-bound earth. Within, a garret ; gloomy, bare, and cold as the bleak night coming down. A haggard youth knelt before a little furnace, kindling a fire, with an expression of quiet desperation on his face, which made the simple operation strange and solemn. A pile of manuscript lay beside him, and in the hollow eyes that watched the white leaves burn was a tragic shadow, terrible to see,-for he was offering the first-born of heart and brain as sacrifice to a hard fate. Slowly the charcoal caught and kindled, while a light smoke filled the room. Slowly the youth staggered up, and, gathering the torn |